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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Quite amazing how little traction this story is getting. Back in the 1950s-2000s, when Russia's influence on the West was rather subdued, this would have been the only news in town. Instead it's more like "nothing to see here
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Sure, but 1000 is just 1 in 3000 voters. In practice it's going to be way more than that, probably 2 or 3 in 10. Thats hundreds of thousands of voters, many of whom are going to be punctilious people. Of all the suggested fuckery metho
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
The ballot printout is not discarded, is it? If not, then the ballot-barcode consistency in the sample can be verified as part of the audit.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Believe me, we've been aware that this is a non-bug feature for a long time. The Tuesday law was passed in 1845. Instead of changing it, many legislators are pushing in the opposite direction: trying to selectively suppress their oppon
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Indeed, and the math is the same. If out of 3 million voters, just 1000 double-check the printout, they will detect a 1/100 flip with probability 99.996%.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Not with a randomized audit, such as this one for the 2022 primary [1]. If it flipped just one vote out of 100, and you drew an audit sample of just 1000 votes, the probability of detecting it would be 99.996%. [1] https://www.cp
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
If you exclude its pre-Athlon Nvidia-like era, Intel's market cap earlier this year was only ~20% below its 2020ish peak. It has engineers. It might yet surprise. Nvidia hasn't proven it can turn a ridiculous amount of capital int
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
> nothing burger event for an index that has lost relevance This argument has been around since time immemorial. The right way to think of it is more like a country club or a who's who, rather than a survey or a directory. As for th
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
I wish some of the sleeping/eating studies covered the options "sleep when I'm tired" and "eat when I'm hungry." When remote work is an option, it'd be nice to know the health opportunity cost of RTO.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
https://www.migrationpolicy.org
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
> it decreases demand for existing homes as well. It also negatively impacts employment and many other areas, basically if your run on debt the higher rates hurt The question is not what's affected. It's how much monetary polic
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
The goal in increasing rates is to cool the economy by reducing construction , i.e. housing starts. Exchanging existing units doesn't affect employment and output as much. Since starts dropped by a third, it follows that prices would
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Prices are not the relevant statistic though, it's housing starts [1]. They dropped from ~1.8M in April 2022 to ~1.3M today. Prices are affected by supply and demand equally, while starts are much more affected by supply. As for how th
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
That's not really surprising, considering that's exactly how interest rate increases are supposed to work. They crowd out a bit of business investment and a lot of housing investment [1]. This in turn cools the economy by curtaili
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Is there a blog post about what specifically she found to be inscrutable? The C++ doesn't look all that terse at a syntactic level, and has plenty of comments. Are the problems at the domain level?
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Here's an algebraic example to keep things theoretical. If the easy to delete version proposed by the article is: f(x) = 6x^2 - 5x + 1 The prospective extensible version is: g(x,a,b) = ax + b f(x,q()) = q(x,3,-1) q(x,
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
At the risk of turning a unison into a chord, here's my two cents. If: 1. You know where the 'creases' of orthogonality are. You've carved the turkey 1000 times and you never get it wrong anymore. 2. As a result, there i
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Global Russian paranoia would actually be alright. We used to have that in the 80s. Certainly better than global Russian domination by way of stooges like Maduro, Orban, Wagner in Africa, and you-know-who in the US.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
The most salient feature of Russian meddling is playing all sides, both ideologically and in levels of sophistication. The less-sophisticated efforts are basically misdirection and camouflage. They are intentionally disarming, akin to how t
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
> camelcase naming for everything, getters and setters for every class variable, interfaces everywhere This is not far off from the guidelines in many cases, e.g. Windows code (well, not every variable of course.) A lot of Java design
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Moderation is speech too. It's not possible to have an apolitical discussion of matters related to a plutocrat that offers a $100M vote bounty. To selectively silence dissenters is to be even more political than to just debate with the
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
> Then why is he doing it in the Bay Area, then? Probably so he can blame in on politics when it fails spectacularly.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Apparently (quelle surprise) Linus is getting swarmed by Russian trolls like a US swing-state voter. From https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about. It's e
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Cue John Cleese
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
How convoluted, insidious, and camouflaged can a hidden backdoor or exploitable intentional defect be? If hacking or subversion is possible, it has been tried and will be again. If anyone is going to try it, chances are Putin's people
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
I wonder if it's the same people who buy all three. The people who dress up for Halloween 364 days a year.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
I used to think no production vehicle could ever be uglier than a PT Cruiser.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Glancing at the authors' names, it's possible that none of them are native English speakers. Any chance that the sections you're referring to were just AI-polished rather than AI-generated?
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
Whenever there's any positive news on masking, there's always online pushback under some theory or another. I'm not saying GP here is necessarily guilty of anything, of course.
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by worstspotgain 2y ago
The namesake 2015 movie was almost as much of a pain to watch as being in the experiment itself would have been.

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